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In this exhibition in Summer 2020 in our showroom in Berlin Mitte there were some works by Ryan Mendoza to admire. The series consists mostly of pairs of images that reflect exactly what influences Ryan's art: comics, heroes, traditional gender roles, guns, power, muscles, sex... 
The connection between the individual images builds a whole new meta-level. There is a real tension between the images. Almost a kind of dichotomy that is expressed here. Even the larger works act with impulses to think and pull the viewer into the picture. 



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DA Ryan Mendoza Exhibition

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The house of civil rights icon Rosa Parks in Detroit was to be demolished. Then artist Ryan Mendoza stepped in - and sent it on a year-long journey. The work makes its last stop in Naples.

If it were up to Ryan Mendoza, this house would still be in Detroit. Between 1957 and 1959, it was home to Rosa Parks (1913-2005), the woman who refused to give up her seat on the bus for a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, on 1 December 1955, thus becoming a symbolic figure of the African-American civil rights movement. After racist hostilities, however, Parks had to flee and went north like millions of other black people: She built a new life for herself in Detroit, Michigan.

Because no museum, no foundation in the USA wanted to acquire it, Mendoza decided to bring Rosa Parks' two-storey wooden house with the gabled roof to his Berlin neighbourhood. After the house stood for a while in Berlin, there was the possibility to exhibit the house in the royal palace in Naples.

When we accompanied Ryan Mendoza at his exhibition "Almost Home" in Naples 2020, we created this videographic representation of his project, among others.

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DA Ryan House Project

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Porn, painting, politics. 
This is a Teaser/Video Art of Being Harvey Project.
The US-American artist Ryan Mendoza and his wife, the Berlin-based filmmaker Fabia Mendoza, are in a marital crisis.
Fabia has no desire to be Ryan's muse anymore. She refuses to model for her husband with other young men and women and to fulfill Ryan's intimate desires under creative pretexts. 
Doggedly, Fabia attempts to use this film project to free herself from financial and emotional dependence on her husband. 
Meanwhile, Ryan, shaken awake by his girlfriend, #MeToo pioneer Rose McGowan, begins to artistically grapple with his own identity as a heterosexual, white, male artist. 
Dressed in a Harvey Weinstein mask, he begins instigating art projects around the world. 
This is an excerpt of a film which still is a work in progress. -by Fabia Mendoza

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Being Harvey - Short film

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Of course, we didn't miss the chance when Ryan Mendoza calls for his gallery opening on september 15th 2020 in Naples.  After we had admired the associated Rosa Parks House which is the first part of Ryans Exhibition, we continued to the second part in the evening to the Luigi Solito Galleria Contemporanea. The exhibition included a lot of smaller, diverse comic book style paintings, which are typical of Ryan's work. 

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Almost Home - Gallery Opening

The new showroom for art!

The new
showroom for art!